News: Performance Management
Sainsbury benefits from staff training
20 February 2008
Sainsbury's is reaping the benefits of a management training programme aimed to develop and nurture managers with high potential.
The Aspire programme aimed to "nail to the floor" employees believed to be integral to the supermarket chain and to identity future middle managers, reports People Management.
Sue Round, head of leadership development at the supermarket, said: "We could have been heading for a talent time bomb.
The Aspire programme was implemented to motivate and develop middle managers so they would be willing to stay with the organisation and "become the bench strengths we knew we would need", she added
Participants of the programme undertook a leadership challenge on Dartmoor and management training.
The company reports that the programme, which has been running for seven months, has saved the company £636,000 in recruitment-related costs.
Frances O'Grady, deputy secretary general at the Trades Union Congress, recently claimed that employers often do not recognise the value of staff training.
